A. Aronsson's WeBOLLog

To get things ready for print services I have spent the last few weeks revising my impossible figure templates, scripts, and actions. This to convert them and all future art from CMYK to RGB and the aspect ratio to 4:3. While at it I adjusted the signature, background, website url, line colors and weights, added copyright text (tiny!) and made some actual updates to a few pieces. The process took more time than I had planned since I kept coming up with more changes I wanted to make, forcing me to go back and change files over and over again!

Another difference from before is that I will post images in the PNG format, a lossless format which generates reasonably small file sizes, this because PNG rocks, and compression artifacts don’t. I have finally managed to update all old posts to reflect this change.

I mentioned that I had updated some of the figures themselves, I will list which ones that has had the biggest updates:

• Tribar7
• Tribar6
• Tribar5
• Pillars

I ended up really happy with Tribar 5 and 7!

Oh, and as of today it is exactly two years since I finished the first impossible figure in this collection!

Entering 2009 via a link from Neatorama, leading to all kinds of links from other places, I found very nice responses to my art. One of them was by Kessler over at his blog; his comment motivated me to check out online printing services and what they required, so right now I am in the process of adjusting all my figures via a revised template.

The new template removed a few steps of my work process and also means I will be putting higher resolution images in the lossless PNG file format on the site. I will update older posts when I have finished updating all previous pieces.

Grate
2009-01-17

Linework | Fillwork

The top part of this figure is not shaped like the bottom part, even though they are connected vertically.

With one of the Belt figures I got a comment that it looks like my curves have the smoothing turned off by mistake. I keep the shading this way on purpose because I want the different surfaces to be really defined, and not smoothed into a gradient. I do leave out the lines where there are curves though.

Building
2008-12-12

Linework | Fillwork

There is a wide roof and a deep floor, but at the same time all the walls are connected horizontally.

20th of November, that happened to be my two year anniversary working where I do. Time flies. Oh, and while I’m at it, Happy New Year! … soon!

Fence3
2008-11-20

Linework | Fillwork

Three differently colored bars are connected at three points. At each point the bars are at different depths relative to each other, but they are still connected.

This one took ages to finish, and a whole lot of frustration. I had to remake it several times as I bumped into things that wouldn’t work out or plain errors. I spent about eight hours spanning four days in AutoCAD, oh the pain! I experienced a bunch of annoying features in AutoCAD that messed up what I was doing too, snapping acted up and leading functions destroyed me. Might look at a reinstall, but I haven’t changed any settings! Gah.

Beam
2008-10-30

Linework | Fillwork

One plate is in front of the next, but even so they are connected so they all form a single flat surface.